IT Process Reengineering, Access Controls Improvement and Security Log Review Strategy
Client / Industry Brief
- The Client is a UAE based University, which is involved in general and various technical degree and medical programs .
- It offers more than 85 diverse academic programs at the diploma, bachelor, master and PhD levels
- The University has long-term cooperation agreements and strategic alliances with 31 leading academic institutions around the globe.
Project Objectives
- To identify the culprits:
- IT Management in the University suspected of the breach but they were absolute sure about it.
- Process Reengineering:
- Identification of areas where the security process can be implemented or improved upon.
- Security Process Enhancement
- Improving Exam Access Controls and proactively knowing what is going on in network through Log Analysis
Project Methodology
Project Benefits
- The trend of annual exam leaks was stopped and security processes were improved upon and re-engineered.
- Internal IT Team was trained on advanced Cyber Security measures and incident reporting for future.
- Information Security Policy and Processes documents were redefined and documented effectively.
- IT department is now able to proactively monitor and stop hacking attempts both from internal and external threat vectors.
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